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Neighborhood · Ranked #19,618 of 84,120 nationally

Skyland Eviction Risk: Moderate , Denver

Tract 08031003603 · Denver County, CO · pop 3,501 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi

08031003603 is a census tract in the Skyland area of Denver, CO. It scores 5.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,501 residents. The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10.

Risk score
5.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 21% Owners 58%
Tract context
Occupied units1,659
Renter share41.8%
SVI overall0.37
Poverty rate7.7%
Median income$115,938

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Skyland
Moderate
Within parent city
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#127 of 178 tracts In Denver
Low
Within county
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#129 of 178 tracts In Denver County
Low
Within state
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#336 of 1,447 tracts In Colorado
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Denver and the region

Centroid at 39.7565, -104.9502 · click any tract to drill in

Why Skyland scores 5.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Denver
9.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.1
State political climate
Colorado legislature & governorship
4.7
Economic stress
7.7% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,970 rent vs county FMR
4.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Denver
7.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Denver
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Denver
7.5

How Skyland compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Skyland risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.95.9This tracttract 003603Denver: 6.86.8Denverparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.94.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 37

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 152Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 3.73%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.4%Peak (2009)
  • 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 080310036032009: 27 filings (4.35/100 renter HHs)2010: 21 filings (3.95/100 renter HHs)2011: 21 filings (4.24/100 renter HHs)2012: 24 filings (4.85/100 renter HHs)2013: 16 filings (3.23/100 renter HHs)2014: 22 filings (4.44/100 renter HHs)2015: 14 filings (2.83/100 renter HHs)2016: 7 filings (1.94/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 74% over the past 8 months.
Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Skyland

The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10. The filing record is not thin: 152 evictions over 8 years of observation.

Against Denver County at 45.4%, 50% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Denver County average of 6.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. The worst year on record was 2009, when 4.4% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 77th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.3/10. Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,970, close to the Denver average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $115,938.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 08031003603

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 08031003603?

Census tract 08031003603 in the Skyland neighborhood scores 5.9/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 08031003603?

Median gross rent is $1,970/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 08031003603?

7.7% of residents in tract 08031003603 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,501.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 08031003603?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 37th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 21th, minority 67th, housing 27th.
Q5

Is tract 08031003603 considered part of Skyland?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 08031003603 fall within Skyland (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 08031003603?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 152 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 08031003603 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.73% of renter households, peaking at 4.4% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 08031003603 compare to Denver overall?

Tract 08031003603 scores 5.9/10, lower than the parent city of Denver at 6.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Denver eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 08031003603 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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